Exclusive: Leaks reveal plans to slash aid to world’s poorest countries. Bob Geldof brands move ‘shameful’ while...

Congolese activist Julienne Lusenge talks about the struggle to end wartime sexual violence and why she appreciates...

Six million Congolese have died from conflict-related causes over the past two decades – making the conflict in...

To avoid another “World War” in Africa, the international community must negotiate with Kabila his own peaceful...

This is why feminist activists are mobilising behind a proposed international treaty to regulate the impacts of...

Kabila’s grasping for straws abroad points to a regime running out of options.

Academic Laura Sjoberg argues that our gendered assumptions about sexual violence in conflict limit our...

Is a rethinking of laws of armed conflict or international humanitarian law, humanitarian assistance and refugee...

Displacement is social as well as geographical. Women’s welfare and survival depends significantly on their social...

“They think when they’re raped that their lives are shattered. But we’d like them to know that it’s not the end of...

Should he stay or should he go? When it comes to the president, it's the subject of heated debate in Burundi, Congo,...

Papa Wemba, star of the third generation of post-1945 Congolese musicians, has died. He exemplified Congo's cultural...

A spate of violence against women in the eastern DRC shows that there is still a long way to go on effective...

Lack of security in the region has led to protests by truck drivers at the Kasumbalesa border crossing between...

Two decades on from the Rwanda bloodletting, conflicts still simmer in neighbouring DRC. While their success remains...

The US cares chiefly about stability in the DRC, rather than promoting Rwandan or Ugandan national interests....

On 18 August, Tjostolv Moland, a 32-year-old former officer of the Norwegian army, was found dead in his prison cell...

There is a current global environmental crisis and Africa is part of it. But as aggressive resource extraction...

"If we live violence every day, how can we work for the development of our country so that we can benefit from human...

Integrating into the urban landscape, the humanitarian sector has contributed to various processes of transformation...